Saturday, October 10, 2009

Statue of Liberty, New York, USA

Event at which a gift from France to the US was conceived: Dinner PartyDate: 1865Location: Glatigny, France (near Versailles)Host: Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye (1811-83)Honored Guest: Frederic Auguste Bartholdi(As accounted by Bartholdi in 1885 - ref: Trachtenberg)

Date Construction of the Statue began in France: 1875Title of Statue: "Liberty Enlightening the World"

Sculptor: Frederic Auguste BartholdiBartholdi's Military Rank: Quartermaster to a force of five thousand soldiersBartholdi's Commander at Autun during Franco-Prussian War in 1870: Giuseppe Garibaldi (FS1986)